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In his last at-bat of the Dodgers’ 5-0 win over the Braves on Thursday night, Skip Schumaker smacked the first pitch he saw from reliever Cory Gearrin up the middle to extend his career-best hitting streak to 13 games. The one-out, eighth-inning single set up Yasiel Puig’s mammoth grand slam later in the frame, but was also a continuation of the second-longest hitting streak of a Dodgers player this season. Schumaker will look to match Matt Kemp (April 30-May 15) for the longest such streak of any Dodgers player this season in Friday’s game against the Braves. “I’m probably not going to break [Joe] DiMaggio’s record, so it’s not...

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In his last at-bat of the Dodgers’ 5-0 win over the Braves on Thursday night, Skip Schumaker smacked the first pitch he saw from reliever Cory Gearrin up the middle to extend his career-best hitting streak to 13 games.
The one-out,...

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